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part of the neck are white ; then become a little spotted ; and then 

 brown. Those of the tail, or arising from the rump, and a little above 

 it, are white. 



The bill is exactly of a lemon- colour ; and is of the same colour 

 with the nose [cere] of other eagles or hawks. The nostrils are -|ths of an 

 inch long and oblique ; one end turning upwards and inwards. The 

 eyelids are in the direction of the bill. The iris of a yellow colour, 

 pretty much like that in the lion or leopard. In its anatomy the eagle 

 is just like the kite. The mesentery is scolloped. The gland that I 

 observed in the orbit of the eagle has its duct passing forwards on the 

 inside of the os lacrymale into the nose. There are two pretty large 

 puncta lacrymaha, situated on the inside of the angle of the eyelid, 

 not on the edge. 



The Golden Vulture [Vultur fulvus, Gm.]. 



The feathers of this bird are of two colours, of a white dun and a 

 black : the two rows of the largest feathers of the wings are black, 

 excepting at the roots, where they are white : those that arise from the 

 thumb of the wing are black. From each shoulder of this bird arise 

 two long feathers, which pass backwards towards the tail, covering the 

 whole feathers of the back that are between them and the tail ; but 

 they are covered at the roots by the feathers of the neck, <fcc. : they 

 are black like those of the wings ; and when the wings are either 

 stretched out or folded, these two black feathers join as it were the 

 black feathers of the wings, or make one continued blackness across 

 the body. The longest feathers of the tail are black, and some of the 

 smaller ones upon the upper surface of the tail. All those of the 

 shoulders, upper part of the back, lower part of the neck,. breast and 

 thighs, are of a dun colour, those of the neck becoming darker upwards 

 to their termination, where they are pretty dark at the tips but white 

 at the roots. There they are somewhat smaller, and are turned both 

 ways ; that is, the most superior are turned towards the head. All 

 along the fore part of the neck no feathers arise. 



From the edge all round the merry-thought arises a thin muscle 

 upon the skin of the neck as in a pigeon ; under this is a cavity, as it 

 were between the two cavities [air-cells] of the merry-thought, which 

 communicates with the cavity of the trunk. In this cavity is situated 

 the crop. Upon each shoulder is another cavity [air-cell] under the 

 skin. 



It has a crop. The stomach is pretty strong, but not of the gizzard 

 kind ; it is almost round, and has a small round tendon in its middle 

 about the bigness of a farthing. The trachea is long, somewhat flat- 



